Delaware has been the Blue Hen State at least since 1830, supposedly from a nickname of its regiments in the Revolutionary War. Blue streak, of something resembling a bolt of lightning (for quickness, intensity, etc.) is from 1830, Kentucky slang. Blue water "the open ocean" is from 1822. Blue whale is attested from 1851, so called for its color. For blue ribbon see cordon bleu under cordon. The early Blue Note LPs often featured generic back covers that listed all of. The fabulous story of Blue-beard, who kept his murdered wives in a locked room, is in English from 1798. īlue pencil as an editor's characteristic tool to mark corrections in copy is from 1885 also as a verb from 1885. Expressive alike of the utmost contempt, as of all that men hold dearest and love best, its manifold combinations, in ever varying shades of meaning, greet the philologist at every turn. Few words enter more largely into the composition of slang, and colloquialisms bordering on slang, than does the word BLUE. In some phrases, such as blue murder, it appears to be merely intensive. Of women, "learned, pedantic," by 1788 (see bluestocking). 1400, perhaps from the "livid" sense and implying a bruised heart or feelings. The figurative meaning "sad, sorrowful, afflicted with low spirits" is from c. The color of constancy since Chaucer at least, but apparently for no deeper reason than the rhyme in true blue (c. The sense "lead-colored, blackish-blue, darkened as if by bruising" is perhaps by way of the Old Norse cognate bla "livid, lead-colored." It is the meaning in black and blue, and blue in the face "livid with effort" (1864, earlier black and blue in the face, 1829).
The present spelling in English is since 16c., common from c. A1: Eb7 Bb7 Eb7 Eb7 Bb7 Bb7 Eb7 C-7 F-7 Bb7 Eb7 Bb7 A2: Eb7 Bb7. bla is also 'yellow,' whereas the Scandinavian words may refer esp. term applies varies in the older dialects M.H.G. Many Indo-European languages seem to have had a word to describe the color of the sea, encompassing blue and green and gray such as Irish glass (from PIE root *ghel- (2) "to shine,") Old English hæwen "blue, gray," related to har (see hoar) Serbo-Croatian sinji "gray-blue, sea-green " Lithuanian šyvas, Russian sivyj "gray." The exact color to which the Gmc. The same PIE root yielded Latin flavus "yellow," Old Spanish blavo "yellowish-gray," Greek phalos "white," Welsh blawr "gray," showing the slipperiness of definition in Indo-European color-words.
This is from PIE *bhle-was "light-colored, blue, blond, yellow," from root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn," also "shining white" and forming words for bright colors. Alternative Names: A Minor Blues Scale Is a Mode of: C Major Blues Scale. 1300, bleu, blwe, etc., "sky-colored," also "livid, lead-colored," from Old French blo, bleu "pale, pallid, wan, light-colored blond discolored blue, blue-gray," from Frankish *blao or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *blæwaz (source also of Old English blaw, Old Saxon and Old High German blao, Danish blaa, Swedish blå, Old Frisian blau, Middle Dutch bla, Dutch blauw, German blau "blue"). Doing so means notes in the scale will often not match notes in the chords.
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